When comparing Pepperplate vs Basil, the Slant community recommends Basil for most people. In the question“What are the best recipe manager apps for iOS?”Basil is ranked 2nd while Pepperplate is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose Basil is:

Basil uses a highlighting system that allows selecting each element of the recipe instead of having to type it in.

Pros

Pro

Reasonable organizactional methods

Menus allow grouping recipes and operating with them together. For example, a whole menu can be added to a shopping list or added to the planner without having to add each recipe separately.

Categories are essentially tags. They can be added to recipes and used to search through them in recipe list.

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Has an online interface

Allows sharing recipes with others through a link on the website.

Pro

Grocery list

Recipes and menus can quickly be added to the grocery list from their appropriate views. Items in the grocery list can be sorted by aisle or recipe.

Pro

Good web clipper

While the experience using the clipper on a mobile device might need some work, the clipper itself is reasonably advanced. It directly supports over 30 recipe sites. It imports images, prep time, ingredients and instructions from those sites.

Pro

Can be used for meal planning

Recipes and menus can quickly be added to the planner from their appropriate views. Unfortunately, there's no way to add them from the planner itself.

Pro

Manual recipe clipping doesn't require typing

Basil uses a highlighting system that allows selecting each element of the recipe instead of having to type it in.

Pro

Good web clipper

Recipes found on the web can be added to Basil by simply navigating to the recipe using the built-in web browser and clicking the plus icon. It will automatically import recipes from a variety of sources including epicurious.com, seriouseats.com and chow.com.

Pro

Flexible organizational methods

Recipes added to Basil get automatically tagged. Tags include ingredients as well as meal and cuisine types. It allows quickly finding what recipes can be made from available ingredients.

Pro

Tools that help prepare meals

The app includes timers that can be activated from the directions section.

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Easy to use grocery list creator

Grocery list creator is easy to use and it does small helpful things such as combine all quantities of ingredients and offers substitution suggestions.

Pro

Simple interface

The interface is very clean, clear, easy to understand and pleasant to use.

Cons

Con

Doesn't de-duplicate recipes

You can add the same recipe multiple times from the same url but the site won't merge them automatically.

Con

Poor mobile web clipping experience

To save a recipe from the web into Pepperplate requires copying the URL, navigating to Pepperplate.com (that has no mobile version), either logging in or clicking view recipes, then navigating to import recipes and pasting the URL in the form field. There's no way to "share" a URL to Pepperplate.

Con

iPad only

There's no iPhone version.

Con

Web clipper requires using the built-in browser

To import a recipe, Basil's built-in browser has to be used to navigate to the recipe. There's no way to "share" to Basil.